Buzz Aldrin Quotes

Pascal Lee is a true pioneer of Mars exploration.

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons where we can send continuous numbers of people.

Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.

I understand that Detroit was a pretty rough place to grow up in the '70s and '80s.

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch.

Save the taxpayer's money by canceling the Ares 1 and V.

People communicate in Twittering ways. I've learned how to do that.

I'm sure that there are places in the deserts in Australia that could be similar to where we might want to go on Mars.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.

I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.

I realize that my life is not the common ordinary person.

I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.

Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?

I'm in favor of changing the destination of humans. There are a lot of manned missions that can be done, but not in the direction of the moon.

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.

What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.

Monumental achievements by humanity should be done by major organizations as much together as possible.

Somebody would think I was trying to get favored treatment because my ancestors had the name Moon. And that's a joke.

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

Walking around on the moon was significantly easier than we'd thought it would be. There weren't any balance problems, so you weren't tumbling over.

My petite little platinum blonde beauty of a wife suddenly turned into a public-relations dynamo. "The business is Buzz!" she proclaimed, and indeed so it became.

I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.

I failed music when I was a teenager.

I do celebrity ski races all over the world.

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

I don't think we're going to build a 50-person spacecraft or a 100-person spacecraft.

I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'

Human rights problems will always exist for years to come, but maybe they'll lessen somewhat.

Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

I grew up in New Jersey and never went up the Statue of Liberty.

I don't go through life verbalizing what I feel.

Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.

I think it's inevitable that there will be Earthlings establishing a presence on Mars. And I would say that it would certainly take place by 2050 or shortly thereafter.

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.

NASA needs to focus on the things that are really important and that we do not know how to do. The agency is a pioneering force, and that is where its competitive advantage lies.

Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.

I wrote 'Reaching for the Moon' because I wanted to tell kids that all of us have a moon, a dream, that we can strive for. Even if you don't attain it, you can at least reach for it.

There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.